Constituency
40. Katpadi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016
TN-KATPADI
DMK 50.9%won by 13.5%AIADMK 37.4%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.0% to 13.5%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.3% between them, down from 97.1% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.2% to 77.4%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,29,868
Turnout
77.4%
Valid votes
1,77,870
Margin
23,946
13.46%
Candidates
16 contested · winner DMK- 1DURAIMURUGANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK90,53450.9%
- 2APPU S.R.KAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK66,58837.4%
- 3SHANMUGAM N TPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK12,7287.2%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,4921.4%
- 5SIVANANDAM T.VTMCM · TMCM2,1631.2%
- 6PUVIARASAN L.NTK · NTK1,1350.6%
- 7SANKAR GANESH KPPIS · PPIS5980.3%
- 8MANJULA VIndependent · IND4390.2%
- 9SATHISHKUMAR LIndependent · IND3820.2%
- 10MURUGAN NIJK · IJK3680.2%
- 11PALANI RIndependent · IND1060.1%
- 12SUBRAMANI KIndependent · IND880.0%
- 13SARAVANAN MIndependent · IND740.0%
- 14SHANMUGAM K LSamajwadi Party · SP740.0%
- 15GANAPATHY SIndependent · IND570.0%
- 16KANNAN K SIndependent · IND440.0%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +11.5%
- DMK share
- 49.5% → 50.9%
- AIADMK share
- 47.6% → 37.4%
- Turnout
- 79.5% → 77.4%